Facebook has announced the creation of Reactions extension of your button “like” for users of the social network express other emotions as surprise, anger or sadness.
“Love”, “I enjoy”, “I am happy”, “Astonish Me,” “I am sad” and “me angry” are the options that include Reactions, and begin to be available from October 9 in evidence only in Spain and Ireland.
To access these options, the user will be prolonged press of the button “like” for a menu in which emoticons descriptive of those emotions will be deployed appears.
Under each publication indicating a visual summary appears the “like”, “love”, “I enjoy”, “I am happy”, “Astonish Me,” “I am sad” and “me angry” that has collected.
Facebook will begin to deploy Reactions from tomorrow in a pilot phase that will analyze the use made of these options and the possible improvements that can be implemented before its worldwide release.
“We have been working to find new ways to that people express themselves on Facebook. Reactions is an extension of the button ‘I like’ and seeks to provide new ways to interact with the content, “he told Efe the product manager Chris Tosswell social network.
These new options are available only to interact with a publication, not with their associated comments.
From morning Reactions options come to Spain and Ireland, but will be a gradual deployment to be completed by the Over the next week.
Tosswell said Facebook has yet to set a date for the global launch of the product.
For a long time has been a demand by some Facebook users need a button “I do not like”, as they felt that “like” is insufficient to interact with certain content.
A few weeks ago, the CEO of social network Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company was working on new ways to show empathy.
“It is important to give people more options than ‘I like’ to help them express empathy” said Zuckerberg, who acknowledged that “not all the times are good times”
Source:. EFE
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